State picking up tab for WIC program

11:24 PM,
Oct. 7, 2013

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The local Department of Agriculture's Women, Infant and Children food and nutrition services continue to operate even though the federal government has been shut down for a week, but the state of Indiana is footing the bill for now.

"We were told that Indiana has enough money to operate for 30 days, and that was from the first of October," Tippecanoe County WIC Coordinator Colleen Batt said Monday after the Tippecaone County commissioners approved two lease extensions for its offices in Lafayette and West Lafayette. "So we are still in business."